Whelp, after several crashes and massive performance issues, I’ve uninstalled this beta. I emailed the team to let them know. See, this is why everyone should ask me to test everything first. That way I can say no, feel guilty when things go wrong, and ultimately recommend every piece of software as “Jeremy Guilt Software”.
Ensight – Jeremy Wright
I'm The Boss @ netmobs, past CEO of b5media, author of Blog Marketing and a hardcore Canadian
December 13th, 2004 at 10:34 pm
lol dude
It’s still indexing my hard drive… we’ll see how it does. It was using up alot of memory during the index process, though.
Good thing I didn’t read this first – I’d never have installed it
Wait…. I’m not sure if that’s good for ME…
Ah, well, there’s always the very good Copernic Desktop Search to fall back on, and the X1 version Yahoo! is going to give away should be cool.
December 13th, 2004 at 10:48 pm
Whoa, what’d you do to it??
Seriously, the last few dogfood builds have been very stable… but then of course the alpha-test pool was pretty much exclusively using XP SP2 on high-end hardware. Did the crashes generate any Dr Watson reports that you could send in?
December 14th, 2004 at 6:29 am
Don’t worry Mike, it finished indexing
Jonathan: Not so much. More of a flicker and buh bye Deskbar. Could have just been the Deskbar process crashing.
To be honest, I was very impressed with the new Desktop Search. I’d even uninstalled the Google Toolbar in favour of the new MSN one. Ah well
December 14th, 2004 at 5:15 pm
I uninstalled right away. It doesn’t hide itself as well as Google’s does and it doesn’t support Firefox or Thunderbird (for more logical reasons).
December 14th, 2004 at 9:21 pm
Installed it last night.. works great.. helps if you Defrag your harddrive every once in awhile.. lol that will speed up Indexing.. Indexed about 76GB in about 35 minutes, plus 600mb of emails. I like it.. have no use for the Outlook Express Toolbar or the IE6 Toolbar, but the taskbar tool bar is great.
December 14th, 2004 at 10:01 pm
MSN Desktop Search, One More Time